The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-24
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.


a South Carolina Lady Narrowly Es-
capes From Death Under Train at
-Hazelhurst's Steady Prog
ress-The Probable Cost of the Last
Legislative Session.
GEORGIA
Emanuel county Superior Court convenes
next Monday
An attempt is being made to establish an
ice factory at Valdosta.
Two thousand eight hundred bales Of cot
ton have been received at Boston to date.
Several valuable diamond pins were Sc
cured by pickpockets during President
Cleveland's visit to Atlanta,
The Colored Baptist Church Association
is now in session in Naldosta, with a large
attendance of preachers and delegates
A drunken negro attempted, few days
ago, to kill John Glenn, of Stewart county.
Mr.. Glenn escaped unhurt, and the negro is
in Jail
Boston will have a 32-column folio weekly
paper soon. to be called the Boston World.
Benjamin McLendon will be editor and pro-
prietor.
Two well-known Athens ladies were rob-
bed by pickpockets last week. One of them
enroute from Chicago lost all of her money,
trunk, checks and jewelry.
Athens expects to entertain 50,000 visitors
during fair week. J. H. Dorsey has written
to Atlanta for several hundred cots, which
will be put up during the fair.
Macon Presbytery viii convene with the
Friendship Presbytery at Mount Tabor
church at Friendship, Sumter county, next
Thursday night, and continue several days.
Wednesday, Old Soldiers Day, will be a
public holiday at Macon. All the stores
will be closed, and everybody will devote
himself to entertaining the old soldiers and
visitors.
The mail service between Reidsville and
Statesboro, Baxley and Mount Vernon, will
be tri-weekly after July l, 1888. A tri-
weekly route from Reidsville to Johnston
Station will be established at the same time.
Lebbeus Dekle is going to put up hand
some brick store ON his lot next to Fhpper's,
on Lower Broad street, Townsville, which
will be occupied by Ernest Dekle. The
contract has been let, and the work will be
pushed
A few weeks since one of the Tallahassee
papers published a notice of Keiffer pear,
raised near that place, which weighed
twenty-six ounces. John T. Perdue, of
Quitman, has raised one weighing thirty
one ounces.
The purchases of the Brunswick post
office from the department in September,
locO. duiOuuUeu 10 SS3l ~. IN september,
1887, they amounted to 81 ,354 so, a gain of
$413 40-another evidence of the advance
which the city is making.
Detectives have been at work in trying to
ferret out the Ellaville depot safe robbery,
which occurred about three weeks ago, and
are about to fasten it close at home on one
that would have been last suspected.
negro has been offered $25 to imphcate an
other party.
The Atlanta police have not yet learned
who, with some blunt instrument, dealt
Hiram Ray, who died there Friday, the
fatal blow on the head. Ray was drunk,
and had fight with some one unknown.
Ray was somewhat notorious character
with pugilistic tendencies.
At Atlanta Friday night, a white man.
supposed to be ]. L. McWilhams, of Pan
thersville, DeKalb county, was run over
and killed at the Central railroad crossing
on Mitchell street. The man was crossing
the track when freight train backed down
upon him. He was crushed to pieces.
Summit is one of the growing towns of
Emanuel county. A large number of houses
have been erected, and still the improve
ment goes on. 1t is the terminus of Wad-
ley's railroad, and that firm and Mr.. Malsby
have one of the largest stores in the coun-
try. Stillmore is also one of the coming
towns, with Messrs Crimson g. Brinson as
the leading spirits
Last Saturday, some negro men were in
the store of w. H. Glover, at Andersonville.
when white man called Toodles Subers,
walked in, picked up Ratchet and struck
one of the nrgroes on the head with the edge
of it, cutting long deep CASH DIR. B. L.
Joiner was called in to attend the wounded
man. The negro is still alive. The cut ex-
tends into the brain one or two inches.
Subers has not been arrested
paign at Atlanta yesterday with lecture
at DeGives' Opera House. A list contain
ing over 2, 800 signatures, petitioning for an
election, has been presented to Ordinary
Calhoun, and from that it will only be
necessary 10 secure the names of 900 quail.
fed voters, to warrant the Ordinary In issu-
ing his election proclamation. That this
will be done there can be no doubt.
Treasurer Hardeman said Friday that he
had not yet received all the the legislative
pay rolls and could not yet say what the
adjourned session cost, but he was certain
that SIZE, 600 would not be too much The
session last winter cost the neat sum of S62.-
600, which, added to the S126, 900, makes
the grand total for the years session of the
General Assembly S1SS,000. This amount
covers period Of 157 days and is at the rate
of nearly 81, 200 per day.
Hazelhurst is still booming. There is not
house to rent in town, and there are APP
plcations for houses every day. Several
houses will be erected. Mr. Lewis brick store
is rapidly going up, and will be completed
by Dec. l. Judge B. n. Williams has COM
menced grinding his cane The Judge says
he planted for thirty barrels of sugar, but
will not make more than ten. The cane is
very sweet this year, but does not make up
for the damage caused by the drought.
Yesterday evening late little negro boy
named Berry Brown was playing with an
other boy in the woodward of Ivey Bros.
near the park In running from the other
boy Berry ran against the frame of one of
the wood wagons with such force as to
knock him down. His cries brought some
of the people who live near by, and when
picked up it was found that be had received
such lick on the head that it was thought
that he would not live, the skull being frac-
tured.
Macon paid last season to the attractions
at the Academy of Music something over
$1,000. There were just fifty-one perform
ances, the largest receipts being that of
Robson & Crane, $1,117 25, and the
smallest that of the Saturday night per-
Torrance of the Booth Barrows company,
$53. To this amount add the concerts and
performances at Masonic Hall and the cir
cuses, and the total will be about 500, 600
paid out TO profesSional.peopleto amuse the
MBconites,